Thursday, March 11, 2010

So, this is a giveaway for the cool tin frame necklace! I'll include the wicked freebie and instructions for putting it together (it is way easy!) thanks to Bonnie at Valley Framing!To be entered~just leave a comment to this post. Since I am a huge Halloween freak, it would be great if you wanted to suggest any ideas for future designs~Halloween or not~or if you just want to tell me why you like Halloween/and or witchy things!

Just so there isn't a disappointed winner~the giveaway is for the tin frame only, not the finished Wicked necklace (which is mine and I love to wear it!!)

Wow! Please enter me.I think you are doing a great job with your designs.I love Halloween designs just because they can have that primitive look. Years ago it was hard to find designs, but now there are just too many to keep up with.Thanks for your generous give-away

Oh, please enter me in your giveaway!!....I absolutely love your designs and am always calling my local x-stitch shop to place an order when you come out with new ones...Looking forward to future designs!!~~hugs,Jen

I have been trying to think of something to suggest, but I keep thinking about Annie's idea!!

Or how about a design that incorporates some of the flowers/plants/herbs that might be used for witchy purposes! Of course, there would be some sort of cool saying included - perhaps one that would read like spell or recipe!

My vote for an upcoming project/idea would be Frankenstein. I love him and there aren't that many patterns available on the market depicting this man of green and bolts!!! LOL Please enter me in your givaway, thanks!!

Hi my name is Beth and I am a new blog reader. I love Halloween and Im from the Cape Cod area,so I really enjoy your work> I think anything with black cats would be fun for Halloween. Thanks for entering me in your giveaway. Stormybrew57@aol.com

I would love to have a change in this give away.Ideas for patterns ... as a pagan I love all the witchy/halloween patterns :) But witches hollow (on which I'm working right now) is the top. That is so beautiful !!!

Oh, what a great giveaway - I love all your Halloween designs! I don't know why Halloween has captured my imagination at this late stage of my life, but I try not to ask too many questions - upsets the old guard inside in my head, hahaha.

As to future designs - gosh, there are so many -I like the one with the witches in training somebody mentioned - and Becky's mermaid idea - I can see a sunken ship with ghosts guarding the treasure chests and the mermaid witch and her friends - a few skeletons, maybe someone just walking the plank when the ship went down, hahaha - it's too much fun to contemplate!

Halloween is not just my favorite holiday, it really is the only one you can celebrate until your end and after. I have always loved it and start planning my costume or theme months in advance. No one is allowed to visit unless they come in costume and all the kids in the neighborhood I'm sure think I'm insane.

I vote for Catherine's idea - I would looooove to see a Halloween design that incorporates witchy herbs! Maybe the design could show a witch's pantry with bundles of herbs drying from the rafters, and a witch dropping some mandrake root in a cauldron :-)

I would loved to be entered for the tin frame. Fall & Halloween is my favorite time of the year. I see a design with maybe an owl in a old tree at night with leaves blowing and cemetery around it. Or a Trick or Treat scene. Just thoughts...

Hi, I would like to be entered! I am a great fan of your designs... :o) I love Halloween - it is my favourite time of the year. I have some boxes for every holiday full of decoration material, but the boxes for Halloween are the biggest ones! It is the same as with Joanie - everything black and orange and witchy (I love witches of all Halloween characters) :o)

As for an idea for designing: what about a design featuring the witch from the fairytale "Hansel & Gretel" which is originally a German one? Witch and both children - forest at night - gingerbread house...? Or any other "spooky" fairytale?

I would love to be entered into the draw for the necklace frame please. We don't really celebrate Halloween here in the UK, but I am slowly becoming a fan of witchy things and especially love tombstone angels. Could I suggest a few spiders and webs?

Just found your site a while back(link from Notforgotten Farms) and have saved in my favorites. Hoping to find some time soon to go back and checkout the older posts. Your designs are wonderful. Halloween has always been such a fun time of the year for me. We always have a big bon-fire/Halloween party in the woods. Everyone brings pumpkins for carving and once all are carved we have the lighting of the pumpkins. How great they look lined up on the fence. We also have had hayrides to add to the fun. The woods provides such a spooky backdrop for yourimagination to run wild with fear.

My idea for you is based off of our Halloween Fun. How about a witchy party in the woods. Big fire burning and witches gathered round. With other witches coming in a wagon, being pulled by big black cats! Tree and leaves blowing and jack-o-lanterns hanging in the trees to light their way. Oh What FuN!

For Halloween ideas, what about a design with mummies, Dracula, a sppoky graveyard with a dead tree, rickety picket fence and leaves blowing around. I love the suggestion of a pirate ship, perhaps Blackbeard's ghost is walking the deck. I think his wife Aldetha Teach was considered a witch! A primitive alphabet samper would be wonderful especially with a witchy quote.

Another idea would be a horizontal gameboard such as parchesi or backgammon. Chinese checkers with fall/halloween colors would be nice also.

I love the look of all vintage Halloween...especially cats, kids trick or treating, witches hats, vampires, witches,& pumpkins. Love your whimsical designs. I always look forward to what your next designs will be. Thanks for the chance. Pam A

This is a lovely idea of making it into a necklace which means you can carry it around more often with you. If I was even slightly talented in designing I would make up small hanging designs of gravestones. Whenever you enter really old cemetaries you can see some really unique stones. The shapes and designs are amazing and a collection of them to hang on a small black tree for decorations would be really neat. Some of the unusual names seen would also go along with them. Just a thought.

I would love to win this necklace tin to make my own to have one just like yours!!!! Great new designs and Halloween is one of my favorite holidays because I love the colors .... especially in the stitching world. I love A&E too so maybe more of that line? pj

Thanks for the chance at the great give away! Halloween...hmmm..like the charms "spell" bag, how about an amulet bag with a small sampler: Eye of newt, Legs of spider, taunt me not or you'll see fire! Hey, that is actually pretty good. Don't like the you'll see fire, but can't come up with anything better right now.

Hi Lisa, Here I am hoping and hoping I can win the necklace design frame. I would so love to be able to stitch this and wear it. It would be so much "Wicked Fun". Please enter me. How I am hoping and hoping I win...sorry all you other entries...but I really want to win...is this wicked of me or not?? LOL

Lisa - I saw this design on your blog before you went to market in Nashville. I called my local shop owner and begged her to bring back a copy. I forgot to ask her when I was in last week if she was successful - so maybe I will get lucky and win the pattern and tin.Your designs are fantastic and I don't have any ideas to improve upon what you do. stevemarty@msn.com

I think being born in October Halloween has always been special for me. It's the start of fall and all things that go with it - especially pumpkins! I love them in every shape and color they come in! And witches! Several days I dressed as one - green skin and all - but I was a good witch and pulled no pranks.

Hey Lisa! What about an October Calendar design, but centered around a witch's preparing for Samhain/Oct. 31. Preparing herbs, planning the feast, making some charms, putting a fresh broom by the front door. I don't know...I kind of see it in my mind--the top band could be her kitchen, then various blocks for a certain date and what she's doing. And of course the bottom band is the gathering/celebration.

I love your designs - future ideas: For Sale pumpkin patch farm where you pick your own pumpkins and the customers are random witches. Bringing pumpkins up to the counter to be weighed and sold. We have a pick your own pumpkin farm and they have it set up for hay rides, you can buy corn stalks, booths were jams and crafts are sold (witches could be selling potions or cauldrons or brooms or haunted signs) etc. Love to be entered if it isn't too late. Like more pumpkins in your designs. Trixie Kinniard, Lexington KY